Treatises of fistula in ano : haemorrhoids, and clysters
John Arderne
D'Arcy Power
Page  [viii]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  • A Master of Surgery in the act of operating upon a fistula in ano. He wears the cap and gown of his degree Frontispiece
  • PLATE I. A Mastery of Surgery in the fourteenth century Facing page 1
  • PLATE II. The instruments used by John Arderne in the cure of fistula, from a fifteenth-century manuscript in the British Museum (Sloane 2002) … page 10
  • PLATE III. The instruments used in the operation of a fistula in ano from the early fifteenth-century manuscript (Sloane 6) printed in this book. The instruments named from above downwards are:—the sequere me or probe: the syringa or syringe: the acus rostrata or snowted needle: the frænum Cæsaris or fourfold thread: the cochlear or shield: the tendiculum and wrayste or vertile (cf. p. 112). The left-hand figure shows the surgeon probing a sinus in the buttock; the right-hand figure shows the tendiculum, wrayste and frænum Cæsaris in position just before two sinuses are laid open in the left buttock. The snowted needle is about to be drawn through a series of fistulæ in the right buttock … Facing page 10
  • PLATE IV. A series of drawings to illustrate the various occupations of a leech … page 99